THIS CALL IS CLOSED. Call for Tutorials —————————————————— 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2018, http://ucc-conference.org) co-located with the 5th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2018, http://bdcat-conference.org) Co-sponsored by IEEE TCSC & ACM SIGARCH / in-cooperation with ACM SIGHPC ** Deadline Extension: September 1, 2018 ** Zurich, Switzerland December 17-20, 2018 Context & Scope ———————————————— UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to utility computing, cloud computing services, and other forms of advanced distributed computing. UCC provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing multidisciplinare area. UCC 2018 in Zurich reflects the need to bring academics and industrial researchers together to discuss how to improve existing services and how to bring new applications into the cloud. Cloud Computing delivers computational resources on-demand as services that are commoditized and delivered comfortably analogous to traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. Cloud service offerings for compute, storage and communication resources as well as for hosted software and data are growing at a tremendous rate. It is essential to understand how to effectively transform these services into Utilities that provide value to both users and providers. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these models could be used to provide utility for users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers is also an area of active research. This will be the 11th UCC in a successful conference series of community-driven events. Previous events were held in Austin (USA), Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC2013), London, UK (UCC 2014), Limassol, Cyprus (UCC 2015) and Shanghai, China (UCC 2016), Austin, Texas, USA (UCC 2017). Submission —————————— UCC 2018 invites half-a-day tutorial proposals (preferably 3 hours in length, although longer tutorials can be considered) relating to the subject areas indicated in the list of topics below. We seek proposals across a wide range of topics and levels, from fundamentals to the latest advances in hot topic areas. Tutorial proposals (in PDF format) and any other enquiries should be sent by email to the tutorial chairs. • Matthew Malensek mmalensek(*)usfca.edu • Marco Netto mstelmar(*)br.ibm.com Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models • Policy languages and programming models, such as cloud-native and cloud-enabled applications • Machine Learning applied to Cloud management systems • High Performance Computing Clouds • Utility-driven models and mechanisms for Cloud federations • Autonomic techniques for Cloud applications • Utility-/comfort-driven platforms for Clouds • Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds • Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated • Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) • Virtualization technologies and other enablers • Economic models and scenarios of use • Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces • Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring • Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business, as well as large-scale foundations for Big Data and analytics • Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds • Green cloud computing applications and optimizations • Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction especially in Utility contexts Important Dates ——————————————— Tutorial submissions due: September 01, 2018 (extended) Notification of acceptance: September 08, 2018 Camera-ready tutorial content summaries due: October 15, 2018 Early + tutor registration deadline: October 15, 2018 Tutorial slides and materials due: November 30, 2018 Tutorials at the conference: December 17-20, 2018 Proposal Requirements ————————————————————— 1. Title 2. Name and Affiliation of the Speaker(s) 3. Abstract (one paragraph, 200 words maximum, including previous experience with such tutorials) 4. Intended Audience (one paragraph) and prerequisites: Describe the background assumed of tutorial attendees (i.e. beginner, intermediate, advanced), and any requirements needed (e.g. bring own laptop) 5. Learning Outcome (one paragraph): Describe the benefit, knowledge or skill that will be gained by attendees. 6. Description (no more than 2 pages): A statement giving clear motivation/justification for the topic to be presented at UCC 2018 and a comprehensive outline of the proposed content. 7. Statement on if this tutorial has been given before and if so how this presentation will be different. 8. Materials (one paragraph): A description of materials to be provided to attendees on the conference website – course slides, annotated bibliography, code snippets, etc. NOTE: the materials themselves do not need to be provided in the proposal. 9. Bio-sketch: A single paragraph bio-sketch per tutorial presenter. 10. Requested tutorial length (preferably half a day – 3 hours). Responsibilities ———————————————— Materials for the tutorial must be emailed by the 30th of November 2018 at the latest. The UCC 2018 Conference Organizing Committee will be responsible for the following: • Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the tutorial. • In conjunction with the organizers, determining the tutorial date and time. • Providing copies of the tutorial materials to attendees.